
Andrea Vestrucci (Ph.D., Ph.D.) works on Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics and epistemology.
- Concerning AI ethics, Vestrucci’s work focuses on:
- Models of belief revision that can meet state-of-the-art expectations in expressivity, explainability, and applicability.
- The metaethics of AI regulations, and the ethical issues introduced by AI agents, esp. about free will and doxastic voluntarism.
- Concerning AI epistemology, his work focuses on:
- Computational Philosophy: the exploration and assessment of philosophical arguments in first-order and high-order automatic and interactive theorem provers via universal reasoning infrastructures.
- The impact of symbolic AI systems on human epistemology. This includes: deepening the specific access that symbolic AI provides to limitative metatheorems; investigating the implementation of “a priori” epistemic rules in AI architectures.
In Vestrucci’s research, these topics interconnect with the following questions: the epistemological status of abstract objects (“categories”, “sets”, “god”…); the limits of language and the conditions of a universal language; the notions of dialogue and translation, esp. in multifaith and pluralist settings.
Vestrucci was a Professor of Logic and Ethics at the Federal University in Fortaleza, Brazil, and a Researcher at the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research, University of California, Berkeley. Currently he is also a Research Professor at the Starr King School, Oakland, California. He is a recipient of the Australia Award (Australian Ministry of Innovation and Research) and a Laureate of the Academic Society of Geneva, Switzerland.